Overnight Open Thread (4-3-2016)

This isn't some sort of technical glitch. The White House posted the full audio and video of Hollande's remarks, took it down, and put up this redacted version. They did this.

In 2016, an openly socialist Frenchman has a more clear-eyed view of world events than the President of the United States. And we're censoring his words. We're actually censoring a world leader who's precisely and accurately describing a problem, because it might offend some people. People who definitely need to be offended.

-- Jim Treacher on the White House's censoring of the words 'Islamist terrorism'.

Some viewers interpreted Bonnie and Clyde as a commentary on other issues, but Newman and Benton said they didn't intend it that way. As they wrote in an introduction to a published version of their screenplay, "[People] have told us that Bonnie and Clyde was REALLY about Vietnam, REALLY about police brutality, REALLY about Lee Harvey Oswald, REALLY about Watts. After a while, we took to shrugging and saying, 'If you think so.'"

Some of these you're likely familiar with or can guess but a lot are surprises. Interestingly a number of European countries use designs based off of the M-16/AR-15 though usually derived via the Canadian C7 or C8s.

The Library of Congress has decided to no longer use the heading "illegal aliens" in bibliographic records after Dartmouth College students petitioned to ban the "racially charged" term.

The Library of Congress denied the ban request in 2014, arguing that "illegal alien" is an official term for people who are in the country without proper documents, students told Fox News.

That's when the Dartmouth Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers, or CoFIRED, enlisted the help of librarian associations across the country to petition the Library of Congress to stop using the term, which they argued dehumanizes undocumented immigrants, Fox News reported.

Far from being mistreated, Belgian Muslims are one of the most pampered minorities in Western history.

Lest it offend its burgeoning Muslim population, Belgium has "de-Christianized" its Christian holidays. The holiday previously known as All Saints Day is now referred to as Autumn Leave, Christmas Vacation is now Winter Vacation, Lenten Vacation is now Rest and Relaxation Leave and Easter is now Spring Vacation.

Meantime, it's allowing the construction of massive mosques, including one with a 60-foot minaret that will automatically light up during calls to prayer. Authorities even let Muslim hate-preachers sermonize at the subway stations in Brussels, including one known to approach young Muslims and persuade them to go and fight in Syria.

Heavily subsidized by Belgium's overgenerous welfare system, North African immigrants have little incentive to integrate. Instead they turn inward, creating Islamic no-go zones divorced from and hostile to Western society.

Sharia4Belgium is one of most popular youth organizations in the country. Its young Muslim bullies go around harassing non-Muslims to comply with Sharia law on the street, banning the smoking of cigarettes, the use of alcohol and the sale of pork. Women who don't cover up get pawed, or worse, raped.

As a result, welfare is abused by Muslims across Europe - some 80% of Muslim immigrants to Europe are on the dole, and more than half are "economically inactive." Muslims claim disability more than any other group.

In the EU capital of Belgium, as well as neighboring Netherlands, Muslims are roughly 5% of the population yet consume 40% to 60% of the welfare budget. Belgium spends more on unemployment benefits than any other country outside Denmark.

European society isn't oppressing Muslim immigrants. Far from it. It's coddling them, providing them a comfortable living. And they return the favor by disemboweling their gracious hosts.

Here a federal judge allows a student to sue Brandeis University over its lack of due process during sexual assault proceedings.

Like Harvard, Brandeis appears to have substantially impaired, if not eliminated, an accused student's right to a fair and impartial process. And it is not enough simply to say that such changes are appropriate because victims of sexual assault have not always achieved justice in the past. Whether someone is a "victim" is a conclusion to be reached at the end of a fair process, not an assumption to be made at the beginning. Each case must be decided on its own merits, according to its own facts. If a college student is to be marked for life as a sexual predator, it is reasonable to require that he be provided a fair opportunity to defend himself and an impartial arbiter to make that decision.

Hours after North Korea fired a short-range missile into the sea in retaliation for ongoing U.S. join military drills with South Korea, they started jamming GPS navigation systems near its border with South Korea, affecting hundreds of fishing boats but not causing any immediate danger. There were no disruptions to drivers' satellite navigation system or air traffic, but warning messages were broadcast in affected areas warning ships not to rely on their GPS navigation. In a statement, the South Korean Ministry of National Defense said: "North Korea has been continuously disrupting GPS system since 7:30 pm [Thursday] and thereby interfering and hampering our military movements, which is threatening the safety of our people."

While there isn't enough definite evidence to state that these finds are remnants of the seafaring Scandinavians, The New York Times reports that radiocarbon tests have dated the relics to the Norse age (late 8th century through the mid 11th century). Also, the site's relics aren't characteristic of any other cultures that might have existed in the area, Parcak told The Washington Post. Archaeologists didn't find any flint scraps, pottery shards, or iron nails left behind by later European colonists or indigenous Canadians. Plus, the only other known pre-Columbian iron processing site in North America is L'Anse aux Meadows.

"Either it's . an entirely new culture that looks exactly like the Norse and we don't know what it is," Parcak said to The Washington Post..."Or it's the westernmost Norse site that's ever been discovered."

How does an SUV fleeing the police get inside a U.S. Navy base and take out a $60 million top-of-the-line fighter jet?

That's the question officials at Naval Station Lemoore outside Fresno, California, are trying to figure out after a Jeep Grand Cherokee racing away from a California Highway Patrol traffic stop got 7 miles inside the Navy installation late Wednesday and crashed into the tail section of an F/A-18 Super Hornet.

Navy and California Highway Patrol officials said at a press conference Thursday that two people were in the Jeep -- a male driver and female passenger. Both died and their identifications were being withheld pending notification of next of kin, officials said.

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What a useless sorry stinking excuse for leadership, someone says something that makes Gaylord and his boot-lickers start sucking their thumbs because it goes against the narrative.. why it must be vanished down the memory hole.

Too bad buttercups, reality does not give do-overs when it comes to uncomfortable truths. More often reality sticks the shiv in deeper and twists.

Bonnie & Clyde from 1967 is a fantastic flick. I can even kinda/sorta Pauline Kael's frustration that older critics like Boston Crowther, who had been reviewing movies for the New York Times since the freakin' silent era, didn't get it and dismissed it as "too violent."

I do think it was ridiculous for her and her followers (Kael was a great example of a pre-internet crybully) to get Crowther dumped from the NYT however. He was easily one of the best early film critics ever.

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At some base level, you gotta believe reporters are pulling for a Republican to win the White House if for no other reason than it has to be a pretty shitty existence when you have
to bite your tongue and pretend reality isn't.

Thinking the film wouldn't make any money, Warner Bros. offered Beatty a ridiculous deal: a $200,000 salary, plus 40 percent of the gross. Yes, 40 percent. Of the gross, not the net. The film made more than $50 million.

Posted by: JEM at April 03, 2016 11:31 PM (o+SC1)

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If the ScarJoBot has a British accent, don't follow it down a dark hallway.

He essentially got Pauline Kael out of the movie reviewing business by giving her a "job" in the film industry as a producer. It actually turned out to be a do-nothing position.

By taking the job, and from what I can tell, Kael lost a lot of respect by falling for Beatty's ploy, which was actually to keep her "on his side" and unable to pan the flick he was working on at the time, which I believe was "Reds."

By the time she got back to reviewing movies, a chubby newcomer named Roger Ebert was setting the world on fire, as well as apparently roasting piles of marshmallows and eating them next to the flame.

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A guy in my church did a brief presentation of a medical mission he was on in Senegal. One of his pictures was taken at the place on the African coast where slaves were loaded on to ships bound west. (There was a typically Obama-centric photo taken of this place, with Obama gazing pensively out the door.)

Anyhow this guy made some kind of comment about this being their last view before being onto the ships for a life of slavery and misery.

My question is: didn't slavery actually start when they were captured by Africans, often Muslim I believe, from other tribes? Wasn't that also when the misery started?

Ebert had a lot of shortcomings, not the least of which was his own overbearing liberalism. But at least he wasn't a crybully Manhattan hypersnob like Kael was. I've read only a little of Kael and get the impression she was one of these idiots who was oh so horribly angered and offended that other people DARED disagreed with her about anything.

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Military installations depend more on chain link and warning signs, than they do upon dedicated forces, trained and armed to the purpose.

On a large installation, a Security Police flight (shift team) might number sixty or so Airmen and DoD civilian officers on duty for a given shift.

That's to cover all the gates that are open and active at a given time, sector patrols, the K-9 troops, and then you've got the flightline perimeter patrol, which will usually be just one to three vehicles per shift.

And there'll be anywhere from four to a dozen per shift, tied up as the Police Desk, dispatch, armorer, etc.

Oh, and every patrol sector usually has to relieve one or more gates for chow time and piss breaks, too.

In short, I doubt that there were more than six patrol vehicles available to initially respond to any report, be it sensor-generated, radio call from another patrol unit or gate guard generated.

And if it was a radio call from the State Troopers, it had to go through their comms center, and then be relayed to the Base Desk Sergeant, who'd take the report and dispatch the available units.

By which time the Jeep was likely already halfway or more to the active flightline and adjoining parking aprons.

For a base to ramp up security to hair-trigger levels, you could assume that they're responding to a higher DEFCON level.

Or, someone came to their senses, re-established the Strategic Air Command, and instituted the classic SAC Security Police protocols.

Under which, that Jeep would've been a smoking hole in the ground well before busting through the flightline fence.

Gen. LeMay didn't just believe in raining hell from bombers, you know.

One simply didn't "play" with the security on a SAC base. It wasn't wise, and likely, wasn't survivable.

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A drunk driver made it onto Offutt a few years ago in a stolen car, and after boxing him in, Security Forces put a few rounds in the engine block....... and him. You can't go the "wrong way" through the gates anymore.

69"Our military's a joke if someone can get that far into a base without authorization."

Out here in Oak Ridge, TN an 80 year old nun and a couple of older hippies made it all the way into a secure DOE nuclear facility and were painting anti-nuke slogans on the buildings before someone figured it out.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at April 03, 2016 11:45 PM (y3LgN)

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The 'bot looks more like Kristen Stewart crossed with Emma Watson than Scarlett.

I see no reason to assume that "reality" is very clear or understood to most of the MSM reporters. Speaking from extensive, personal knowledge not gained from reading the press or watching the TV "news".

And while I get the moderate level of wittiness involved, I find pathetic the comment by some (not you Kreplach) that "at least if there's a GOP president the press will go back to being a watchdog".

WTF? WTFF?

Uh huh. "Watchdogs" who will, inter alia, reveal serious scandals like Dubya's dubious TANG record, or the audacious arrogance of a president exercising routine unquestioned authority by firing a handful of US attorneys (who were mostly disasters very much in need of firing), or somehow make LA state and NOLA govt. collapse into a federal issue during a hurricane, .

Or this new, reinvigorated, "watchful" press will give more coverage to events of extremely limited importance, which were uncovered by the military itself and which the press showed no interest in (despite USG spokesman "teasing" the story to them multiple times - Abu Ghraib) than the Pearl Harbor attack received in the NYT.

Or maybe they'll make the public and even the majority of commenters at "conservative" blogs believe there was a "mission accomplished" moment for Bush, when there plainly wasn't (must not actually publicize the speech that was actually given).

It's been a rotten weekend. Hope yours was better. I'm-a gonna lurk and just read the comments...you know, like that guy in the bar who sits in the corner, sips his beer, and just listens to the conversations because he has nothing to say...

...man, I really do sound pathetic.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 03, 2016 11:47 PM (rJUlF)

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The 200th Anniversary of the battle of Waterloo came & went without much notice, either.
Posted by: Josephistan at April 03, 2016 11:43 PM (7qAYi)
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As did the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
Well, the Brits did have a little ceremony about that, but not much.

Hey, hey, ho, ho.
Western civ has got to go.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 03, 2016 11:48 PM (T/5A0)

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Cap'n, sorry to hear about your woestell us what happened this weekend?

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Well,you Morons can have your fun. I'm back in the hospital like you suggested, spitted with IV's and they're talking vasovagal, which means my body can't speed up or slow down blood flow fast enough to adjust to things like massive coughing spasms. They even say it's treatable, so go ahead and say you're welcome, assholes.

We know that ain't happening. When the Muzzies shot up Chattanooga, none of the military recruiters were allowed to go armed and the one that was faced an awful lot of scrutiny for having a firearm on him.

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So why is Obama really censoring Hollande - he knew he would get caught, right? I have to assume that he's counting on no one will remember a year or two from now. or remembering, but not having the transcript or video match the memory.

Gotta get the record clean now to ensure people have the right of his legacy when going through records years from now, I guess.

I can hardly wait for our new Hill-itary command structure, but I know they won't look like Scarlett Johannsen.

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2016 12:02 AM (J3phO)

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Ralph, the biggest GFW in the world, tends to be a military Base Commander, worried about the thought of armed and dangerous 18 & 19 y/o cops under his command.

They condition those young cops to be so damn scared of ever snapping open the retention on their sidearm, or running the charging handle on their AR, that it's truly a courts-martial offense on many installations. Unless, that is, said young cop is taking active incoming, and even then, it's likely his judgment will be questioned, in depth and with rancor.

Whoever it was upthread that said they'd likely only throw diversity training at them, was closer to the truth than not.

Back in WWII, the Navy took about a year and a half to rid itself of timid "by the book" submarine commanders and other ship's officers.

Peacetime "white gloved" officers and the culture they represent, get airmen, soldiers, sailors and marines killed, every time we go to war, and too damn often even when we're "at peace" at home.

They'd be better off as the IBM managers that they are at heart.

A real, fangs-bared wolf in military uniform just scares the shit out them. I've seen it so damn many times, and I know a hell of a lot of other Morons here could testify to the same.

First...I was set to take a lady friend -- very nice, wonderful woman -- to see the Temptations play Saturday night. I got home from the full-time job Friday evening, turned my phone's ringer, and took a nap before having to go to my karaoke DJ gig.

I wake up a couple of hours later to get a bite to eat and change clothes. I have a text from her, asking where I am...weren't we going to the concert?

I text back, telling her it's the next evening. She's upset because she had her hair done and everything, and was looking forward to going...and she'll be out of town for the rest of the weekend. She's insisting I told her the wrong date. I checked my old messages (I asked her out via text), and I did give her the correct date. She doesn't believe me, and doesn't want me to talk to her for awhile.

Second...I had to host a four-hour remote broadcast the next day...a very busy plant sale at a local hardware store. After the broadcast was over, I put the equipment in the station van, proceeded to back out to leave, and got hit by someone else coming through the lot way too fast. I got some bumper damage that I had to tell the boss about, so he's not happy.

Finally, after getting the van back to the station and putting the equipment away, I got in my car, took out a key, and put it in the ignition...only it wasn't my car key. It was the key to the station van. I still had it in my pocket, and it was shaped a lot like my key. Now I can't start the car. I had to get help to get it removed, which costs me money I can't afford.

(Cue chorus of "Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me".)

Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 04, 2016 12:03 AM (rJUlF)

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Obama and his crew have "written" more history than any other presidential administration. They want it all nice and neat for the "new posterity".

Posted by: Ralph at April 04, 2016 12:04 AM (lZ9yI)

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>>>> All right, Horde,
I might have a chance at a surprise open position at a university that has been in the news for the wrong reasons lately.
Think, "Melissa Click."
Might be interesting to have a Moron inside the wire, yes?
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Piercello, we actually have a Moron there whose nic I can't remember. He was posting during that whole sad affair. If you go back and look at some of Ace's posts during the protests and read the comments, you'll find him. You might want to try to make contact with him if that's possible at all and see what it's like working there. IIRC, he had to be a closeted conservative in order to keep his job. Reading his comments on those comment threads might help you decide if the school is a good fit for you. Good luck!

I might have a chance at a surprise open position at a university that has been in the news for the wrong reasons lately.

Think, "Melissa Click."

Might be interesting to have a Moron inside the wire, yes?

Posted by: Piercello at April 03, 2016 11:51 PM (RXfvh) Considering what leftists do to people "inside the wire", I'd hate to see a Moron strung up by his nuts. Stay well away from such places and defund them at a distance. As in our next prezzy saying, "I see nothing in Article 1, Section 8 about education -- so I'm ending all Federal involvement."

Mr. Coffee needed a little something to read with his morning cup, so he bought a 1623 edition of Shakespeare's plays. That's how it is when you're rich.

Posted by: iforgot at April 04, 2016 12:05 AM (5o5ek)

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73 --- rhomboid --- "I find pathetic the comment by some that 'at least if there's a GOP president the press will go back to being a watchdog'."
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Count me as pathetic.

The media has two modes and only two:
There is the vicious manufacture of scandal and hysteria over Republican trivia, which you have noted.
There is the slavish promotion of Democratic wonderfulness, coupled with the cover-up of genuine crimes.

Both are awful but, if I have to choose, I'll take the first.
I would rather Caesar be falsely accused than routinely adored and protected.

Sad times.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 04, 2016 12:05 AM (T/5A0)

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94 Well,you Morons can have your fun. I'm back in the hospital like you suggested, spitted with IV's and they're talking vasovagal, which means my body can't speed up or slow down blood flow fast enough to adjust to things like massive coughing spasms. They even say it's treatable, so go ahead and say you're welcome, assholes.

I know it's easy for me to say but the girlfriend sounds like bad news if she's narcissistic enough to not acknowledge her mistake even after you can prove to her she's the one in the wrong. Too many crazy women out there these days.

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I know it's easy for me to say but the girlfriend sounds like bad news if she's narcissistic enough to not acknowledge her mistake even after you can prove to her she's the one in the wrong. Too many crazy women out there these days.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2016 12:07 AM (ntObR)

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I hate to just unwind here with the trouble with my folks and bum everyone out, but here I go. My father is home, but my mother is that nursing home for rehab after knee replacement. It was her idea to go there rather than come home -- she didn't want me to have to see after two of them. But I think she's regretting it.

Well, I thought dear old Dad was getting better, but no, I'd let my guard down and wasn't watching him as closely. He went up to the bedroom to put his pajamas on, then came back out to go into the bathroom, leaving his walker behind in the den. Well, I'll heard him holler "Whooaaa!" and went I got to him, down he was going in the back hall. His head hit the wall with a thud, and I figured he had just busted it wide open. Luckily it wasn't as bad as it sounded, and he seemed to be okay. It's a hollow sheetrock interior wall, and I guess that made it sound louder.

If it had been a brick or other hard wall, he would've split his head open. And if I'd got there in time to catch him, I don't know if I could've kept him from falling. I might have gone over with him and both us knocked our heads together and there both of us knocked out on the floor.

At any rate, this home health care physical therapist girl came over this afternoon and worked with him for about an hour. She said he seems unsteady on his feet and to keep him on the walker wherever he goes.

I don't think they ever figured out what happened to him the other night. The diagnosis was "possible TIA". Which means that's what they're guessing. Absolutely nothing showed up on the brain scans.

He's 88 years old, and has gone strong his entire life, and doesn't cotton too well to being looked after and all that. I can't complain, I'd be the same way and likely worse.

Cooth et al, the people in the department know me well enough that they might actually have my back. And it is just possible that I could do some interdisciplinary persuasion, given the directions of my own individual research.

I think that, if given the opportunity, I could keep my contacts down here, so that if it didn't work out I would have a fallback plan.

I'll know more when the job posting actually goes live.

Posted by: Piercello at April 04, 2016 12:13 AM (RXfvh)

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See if the traveling exhibition of the First Folio is coming anywhere near you. I saw it today at Texas A&M and I couldn't take my eyes off it.

In one of Kurt Vonnegut's books, his character Kilgore Trout, who was a hack science fiction writer, had a story set on a planet where food was pornography, and people sat in theaters watching movies with actors eating, smacking their lips, and dripping sauce all over the place.

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Captain Whitebread, if it helps, I'm beginning to think that about myself too. I just never seem to get to meet women, and when I do it's always either a situation where (a) it's inappropriate to approach them, or (b) I'm too shy/nervous/busy/otherwise cowed to approach them.

Maybe it'll change someday, there's some things in my life I'm changing that will hopefully help boost my confidence, and I'm open to help like Maetenloch offered me some time ago. But for now... well, I'm counting my blessings, which does help. Sometimes.

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2016 12:16 AM (ntObR)

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Cap'n, your ladyfriend is just making an excuse, and I am sorry about the car, sounds like you had a rough weekend indeed

Posted by: chemjeff at April 04, 2016 12:16 AM (uZNvH)

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"One report I saw was the vehicle went thru a gate. Probably the only
thing the gate guard could do was throw a handful of diversity training
hand outs at them."

There are several miles at Lemoore where the facility's perimeter runs right along the side of a state highway. As I recall, it's just fenced. If it hadn't been a gate where entry was forced, an SUV at speed wouldn't find it too hard to bust through light duty chain-link fencing.

And way back in the day when they first stood up the naval air station, the Central Valley of CA was one of the quietest, calmest, and most law-abiding areas of the entire country. So going with light security was a defensible design rationale in that era.

For that matter, I am not sure the state highway was there in those days. Just a farm-to-market road.

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where food was pornography, and people sat in theaters watching movies with actors eating, smacking their lips, and dripping sauce all over the place.
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Tom Jones?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 04, 2016 12:18 AM (9mTYi)

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117 Never served but I can speak for the IBM managers- Work for a large defense contractor. If the diversity BS gets shoveled down my throat much faster....but need 3 more years. Can't wait to get out.

The Islamo fascist freaks have got to be licking their chops and then some. Sad.

Posted by: Cooldawg at April 04, 2016 12:19 AM (GIeZO)

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Unfortunately, it's the real crazy ones that make it harder for us less-crazy types.
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 04, 2016 12:16 AM (rlfds)

I agree with that. I've been working as a DJ at the karaoke bar for a few years now, and I've seen some textbook examples of crazy. The women who aren't crazy who show up there...they're already taken, unfortunately.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 04, 2016 12:19 AM (rJUlF)

In one of Kurt Vonnegut's books, his character Kilgore Trout, who was a hack science fiction writer, had a story set on a planet where food was pornography, and people sat in theaters watching movies with actors eating, smacking their lips, and dripping sauce all over the place.

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In fact, in my experience, the bigger "chance" you take, he more valuable your proposition. If you are willing to cross perceived barriers, it makes you look more manly, and, simultaneously increases the woman's perceived value of herself: If he's willing to do this, he must really like me, I must really be desirable.

Remember, "inappropriate"-ness isn't governed by rules, but guidelines - this is a free country.

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146 I'm just confused. I don't think all women are crazy. My friends who know her say she's wonderful, and she has been on our previous dates.

Probably just my lot in life to be alone.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 04, 2016 12:13 AM (rJUlF)
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Misunderstandings happen and it sounds to me like she was looking forward to the evening and was therefore very disappointed.
I wouldn't write her off as "crazy" for this.
Maybe it's worth trying to patch things up --- unless it becomes a pattern of behavior.

I don't think she's crazy, and I want to patch things up.
But, since she's not wanting to hear from me right now, there doesn't seem to be much I can do.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 04, 2016 12:23 AM (rJUlF)

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>>I'm just confused. I don't think all women are crazy. My friends who know her say she's wonderful, and she has been on our previous dates.

Probably just my lot in life to be alone.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line

So she made the mistake. Your best move is to send her flowers and profusely apologize. Trust me on this.

Posted by: Aviator at April 04, 2016 12:24 AM (c7vUv)

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"I don't think they ever figured out what happened to him the other
night. The diagnosis was 'possible TIA'. Which means that's what they're
guessing. Absolutely nothing showed up on the brain scans."

In the majority of cases I've been involved with where elderly folk were getting loopy and/or falling inexplicably, it's been some form of cardiac insufficiency a *lot* of the time. Sometimes a subtle form.

The thinker doesn't do too well without that constant supply of well-oxygenated blood. Balance seems to be among the first things to go.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 04, 2016 12:25 AM (noWW6)

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Well, what happened with my father was this. It was the Friday night/Sat. morning before my mother was to have knee replacement on the Wed. of that week. He fell getting up to go to the bathroom. When I got to him, his color was awful (a "pallor" as they call it, ashen grey looking) and he couldn't stand and maintain his balance at all. With his color, I suspected his heart (he'd had a small heart attack years earlier and has several stents in the coronary arteries).

So I got the little blood pressure checker. When I felt his wrist another phrase came to mind, "cold and clammy". That's how his skin felt. The little thing just pumps up no more than it has to, and I saw the display climbing and climbing. The reading was 200/100 roughly. Whoa.

So, it was 911 and get an ambulance out there. When they got him there, my mother and I had to drive separately. When we got there in the ER room, his color had returned to normal. They have ridiculous security at the ER. You have to go through a metal detector, and my hip of course set that thing off and they had to wand me. Then we had to show ID and have our picture taken and get a little photo ID thingy printed out just to go back. And the funny thing is, you can just walk right in the main hospital. But the ER, no, it's Ft. Knox security.

They suspected a stroke, and when we got there, the doc was going through this stroke detection protocol, having him make faces, repeat phrases, then check the strength of his arms and legs on both sides. They didn't want to lower his blood pressure too fast for fear it could bring on a big stroke.

He stayed there for five days and they ran test after test and found nothing and sent him home on Thursday.

I would think that it'd go the other way. Here in Silicon Valley, you have a bunch of tech millionaires with mail-order Russian brides -- and you know how that usually works. The expectation would be that the lurid news accounts of such liasons would make "normal" women seem reasonable in comparison.

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You know, the EMS hooked up an EKG right there when they got there to my father and it was showing perfectly knowing. Even with his color looking awful and the "cold and clammy" feeling skin. And they did much more at the hospital and found absolutely nothing the slightest bit out of whack with his heart. Doesn't mean it wasn't though, just nothing that was showing up.

I think that's why they went to "stroke" as a possibility with the sky high BP and the sudden loss of balance.

People going to a strange new destination with a promise at a new life. Got the rich spoiled kid. The noodle stand guy. Emo chick. Aspiring rapper. And three girls about to kill each other because they are all named Yuuna.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 04, 2016 12:44 AM (rJUlF)

210I don't think she's crazy, and I want to patch things up.
But, since she's not wanting to hear from me right now, there doesn't seem to be much I can do.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 04, 2016 12:23 AM (rJUlF)
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Captain, when you effed up with your car keys, whom did you blame? Whom did you cuss out? YOURSELF, for making the mistake. "God damn, if I'd just double checked, if I'd just effing LOOKED at what I was doing, I knew there were 2 sets of keys to be aware of" etc etc.

Similarly, if you'd accidentally sent her the wrong date, whom would you have blamed? Your stupid, careless self.

So what's this nice, warm lady do? She blames you.

Good lord man, you wouldn't let yourself get away with that -- unless you had tits I suppose. What is it about those things?

There, you will not be bound by physical limitations. I mean with me, the sexbots would need to be trained in CPR and all that, cause I might just overdo it a bit.

In the Matrix, however, all is well. It would be all in your head. You could be "enhanced", if you know what I mean. Taking on 10 USDA prime professional nymphomaniac superwhores just couldn't be done by one man in the real world. In the Matrix, however, that would be a regular Tuesday night.....

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200 I would think that it'd go the other way. Here in Silicon Valley, you have a bunch of tech millionaires with mail-order Russian brides -- and you know how that usually works.

Is that firsthand knowledge? I can't believe they'd be stupid enough to do that.

Posted by: AD at April 04, 2016 12:38 AM (7mFGy)

Just from when it hit the papers it was epic.....and considering what hits the papers these days, it must have been a pandemic. And, really, sexed-up nerds with a big payoff.....you're thinking they'll do something smart?

228Is that firsthand knowledge? I can't believe they'd be stupid enough to do that.

Posted by: AD at April 04, 2016 12:38 AM (7mFGy)
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You've got to be kidding. For starters, consider that Silicon Valley is soaked with Democrats. For continuers, just go there sometime and see what you see. The men and women both. That place is so ripe for a series like UnREAL or Mad Men it's insane.

An extremely gross, graphic, disgusting picture. I may have to have Maet help me out.

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2016 12:50 AM (ntObR)

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219 >>Good lord man, you wouldn't let yourself get away with that -- unless you had tits I suppose. What is it about those things?
Posted by: iforgot

Just a stab in the dark here. You're single aren't you?
Posted by: Aviator at April 04, 2016 12:47 AM (c7vUv)

Finding women with the slightest goddamn sense of personal responsibility and accountability is becoming a near-impossible endeavor.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2016 12:50 AM (0mRoj)

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Publius, this is probably worthless, but here it is: A couple months ago I was hospitalized because the wife was concerned that I was mentally disoriented. I knew I has having mental difficulty too. Two days of tests revealed nothing. After I drank about a quart of water I felt fine, it was like the clouds around my brain broke. I knew I wasn't drinking much before and I suspect that I was dehydrated enough to impair brain function. But no medical professional seems to think that was the problem.

Yeah, thanks, but no. For the last five years of my marriage, those were the words I heard from the ex, while she was screwing everything with an eleventh finger.

You'll have to excuse me if I'm a tetch reluctant to go back to that.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 04, 2016 01:00 AM (rJUlF)

268You've got to be kidding. For starters, consider that Silicon Valley is soaked with Democrats. For continuers, just go there sometime and see what you see. The men and women both. That place is so ripe for a series like UnREAL or Mad Men it's insane.
Posted by: iforgot at April 04, 2016 12:50 AM (5o5ek)

I just took it for granted that people in general weren't stupid enough to do that--that you'd get some random desparate guy here and there--but that's it. Guess I was mistaken.

Posted by: AD at April 04, 2016 01:00 AM (7mFGy)

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So she made the mistake. Your best move is to send her flowers and profusely apologize. Trust me on this.

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'Night horde. Actually want to start the week with some black in the the 'rested' column

Have a blessed and beautiful Monday.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 04, 2016 01:02 AM (hlMPp)

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I'm all for being independent but too often the elderly claim they are when they are really making a lot of work for everyone else. My neighbor refused to go live with his son even just to recuperate. Instead, his poor son had to drive 120 miles almost every weekend and use up every vacation day for years to take care of him.

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276 I'm all for being independent but too often the elderly claim they are when they are really making a lot of work for everyone else.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 04, 2016 01:02 AM (iQIUe)

de'Nile, it's not just a river in Egypt. Nobody wants to admit they are failing or having problems. It's okay, I'm fine.

I'm not ticked off at you. I want you to know that. And if that works for you, great. But those words were used to put me through a hell of a lot of abuse in the past, because she knew I'd put up with it just so the kids would have a Mom and Dad in the house....or, at least they would until she decided to move out to shack up with her future second ex-husband and leave me and the kids behind.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 04, 2016 01:06 AM (rJUlF)

I'm not ticked off at you. I want you to know that. And if that works for you, great. But those words were used to put me through a hell of a lot of abuse in the past, because she knew I'd put up with it just so the kids would have a Mom and Dad in the house....or, at least they would until she decided to move out to shack up with her future second ex-husband and leave me and the kids behind.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 04, 2016 01:06 AM (rJUlF)

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In the Matrix, however, all is well. It would
be all in your head. You could be "enhanced", if you know what I mean.
Taking on 10 USDA prime professional nymphomaniac superwhores just
couldn't be done by one man in the real world. In the Matrix, however,
that would be a regular Tuesday night....

In Shadowrun, they call that Better Than Life, or BTL for short. It quickly got outlawed and became the world's most addictive street drug, and the cheaply-made chips burn out after one use. Naturally, Beetleheads are even worse than meth addicts in the lengths they'll go to in order to get the next hit.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 01:08 AM (J+mig)

Considering you generally make some very brilliant, articulate, properly spelled, and erudite posts Mr. cthulhu, I assume that you are at this moment thinking of tits.

Posted by: iforgot at April 04, 2016 01:11 AM (5o5ek)

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Just an old-fashioned love song,
comin' down in three-part harmony...

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2016 01:11 AM (ntObR)

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Yeah, I figured the SexMatrix had been explored in sci-fi. I'm not too big of a fan of the genre (just never got into it), but I imagine they had some fun with the concept.

I remember one notion, from some sci-fi story, of erotic enhancement via genetic engineering. You create a real, very enhanced in all the right places, female for your "use". And other things, perversions and distortions run amok....

Posted by: Peter North at April 04, 2016 01:12 AM (DW+jj)

297What do you think male IQ points are meant for, in the first place? To do cool things in order to get chicks with great tits.

There's that, too. It's amazing how people fall for the most transparent scams. Lawyer acquaintance of mine told me about a guy who called recently and asked what he could do about getting his money back from someone. It seems he gave away a couple hundred thou (his life savings plus going into debt) to someone who contacted him from overseas. It wasn't the literal Nigerian prince, but something similar.

Posted by: iforgot at April 04, 2016 01:17 AM (5o5ek)

308And there's the funny thing right there. Every time a guy makes an attempt on me, I think, "I'd probably give him a chance if he had another 20 points of IQ."

There's not enough real skeptics in the world anymore. Just a bunch of preening a-holes who think they're geniuses because they've rejected traditional religion in favor of government worship. I really don't get why most people are so trusting now. It's ridiculous.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 01:20 AM (J+mig)

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When they wheeled me up to my the floornurse took one look and said, 'You again?!"

Considering you generally make some very brilliant, articulate, properly spelled, and erudite posts Mr. cthulhu, I assume that you are at this moment thinking of tits.

Posted by: iforgot at April 04, 2016 01:11 AM (5o5ek)

I should also point out that, for the great majority of humanmammalian history, if you were born without a fascination with tits you starved. It's difficult to conceive of a Darwinian cutoff more sharp. Whether you've managed to "outgrow" this or "modify the focus" -- it's a built-in function.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 04, 2016 01:25 AM (EzgxV)

313That's like the tit version of Zeno's paradox.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 04, 2016 01:19 AM (zc3Db)
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I have tons of those. How about the guy wants to marry a virgin but drops a girl if she won't fuck him by the second date? Then he wonders why he can't have what he wants.

How about the girl who says she wants a sensitive guy, then starts dating some tatted up two-bit thug who just got out of State?

We can throw around stereotypes all day.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 01:30 AM (J+mig)

315I should also point out that, for the great majority of human mammalian history, if you were born without a fascination with tits you starved. It's difficult to conceive of a Darwinian cutoff more sharp. Whether you've managed to "outgrow" this or "modify the focus" -- it's a built-in function.

Try not to make too much of it. Don't think it bigger than it is. Could have been she was just knee jerk ticked off because she was looking forward to it and this was a moment in time. Let it go. See what happens in time. I don't know about profuse apology, but flowers, even for no reason -- are always welcome. As for being alone. There are worse things. Like being with the wrong someone.

Posted by: gracepc at April 04, 2016 01:31 AM (OU4q6)

318How about the girl who says she wants a sensitive guy, then starts dating some tatted up two-bit thug who just got out of State?

We can throw around stereotypes all day.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 01:30 AM (J+mig)
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Oh man, don't even get me started on beautiful, bright women who volunteer themselves for abuse. That is so saddening and maddening. And common, yes.

Posted by: iforgot at April 04, 2016 01:32 AM (5o5ek)

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313
That's like the tit version of Zeno's paradox.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 04, 2016 01:19 AM (zc3Db)
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I have tons of those. How about the guy wants to marry a virgin but drops a girl if she won't fuck him by the second date? Then he wonders why he can't have what he wants.

Posted by: iforgot at April 04, 2016 01:27 AM (5o5ek)

Excellent example. As Heinlein said, "man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal."

There are a variety of evolutionary built-in automatic responses with a thin overlay of culture.....and over that thin overlay of culture, you have critical theory....

Posted by: cthulhu at April 04, 2016 01:32 AM (EzgxV)

320I should also point out that, for the great majority of human mammalian history, if you were born without a fascination with tits you starved. It's difficult to conceive of a Darwinian cutoff more sharp. Whether you've managed to "outgrow" this or "modify the focus" -- it's a built-in function.

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Captain Whitebread: Mindful, I'm not ticked off at you. I want you to know that. And if that works for you, great....

Oh, no prob at all, Cap'n. Mine was not advice I'd follow!

In fact, I trample all over the rules when it comes to dealing with the confusions that occur in man-woman communications. My marriage survives, despite or because I don't yield.

I've got in-law relations that the guys put up with the hysteria in silence, and I respect that, because their women just would not be gainsaid. N.B., those women are *not!* screwing around on their guys - they're just screwy. So, "yes, dear," for the sake of peace and the kids, works for them.

I have thought at times to suggest to single Morons that I know of a lovely young woman, quite amazing Moronette-level gal, with a certain, rare self-awareness to question her own Female Assumptions. But can you imagine having me for a father-in-law!?!?!

The saying goes, don' stick yer dik in crayz, but I believe you just can't escape the crayz. (And neither can the 'ettes.) It's just the degree-amount of crayz you can handle, and whether it's sufficiently moderated by sincerity and sanity. I'm lucky enough to know Milady-love will listen, even when she's sure I'm wrong. And every once in a long, long while, I might be!

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Human breasts are unique. At least amongst primates, human females are the only ones who have permanently enlarged breasts. In other species, the breasts only swell up after birth during breastfeeding. Otherwise, they are flat. And I think that's true for all mammals, but I'm not certain.

329Just a bunch of preening a-holes who think they're geniuses because they've rejected traditional religion in favor of government worship. I really don't get why most people are so trusting now. It's ridiculous.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 01:20 AM (J+mig)

might be among the suckers, too. Interesting, I'd never put that together.

Posted by: iforgot at April 04, 2016 01:40 AM (5o5ek)

330328 Human breasts are unique. At least amongst primates, human females are the only ones who have permanently enlarged breasts. In other species, the breasts only swell up after birth during breastfeeding. Otherwise, they are flat. And I think that's true for all mammals, but I'm not certain.

And that is something of an evolutionary mystery.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 04, 2016 01:38 AM (DW+jj)

I'm going to share a secret. We're all crazy. Everyone on the whole planet. Just in our own separate ways. Normal is just the baseline and common forms of crazy, and it only gets weirder from there.

So when you're finding a significant other, what you're really looking for is a form of crazy that harmonizes with your own instead of getting all discordant with it.

Unfortunately, when you're a huge geek like me, you pretty much gotta get used to the idea that you're probably headed to a future that involves a lot of cats because there's not enough girls that are into turbogeeks. Particularly ones that aren't Silicon Valley millionaires.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 01:40 AM (J+mig)

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Human breasts are unique. At least amongst primates, human females are the only ones who have permanently enlarged breasts. In other species, the breasts only swell up after birth during breastfeeding. Otherwise, they are flat. And I think that's true for all mammals, but I'm not certain.

And that is something of an evolutionary mystery.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 04, 2016 01:38 AM (DW+jj)

*****

Human female breasts also sometimes swell mysteriously when in search of a mate. After a trip to see the Blouse Bunny Doc.

#2weeks

Posted by: Tim in GA at April 04, 2016 01:42 AM (YLidQ)

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So, I took time to craft a tl;dr response and missed the Captain? That's the ONT for you.

♦

Surprised, with all the talk of robots and matrix sex nobody's mentioned the classic Orgasmatron.

Hang it all, I would love to stick around, but I fear we are in different time zones and I'd be stumbling and dozing tomorrow at work even if I went to bed 2 hours ago.

Posted by: iforgot at April 04, 2016 01:44 AM (5o5ek)

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328 Human breasts are unique. At least amongst primates, human females are the only ones who have permanently enlarged breasts. In other species, the breasts only swell up after birth during breastfeeding. Otherwise, they are flat. And I think that's true for all mammals, but I'm not certain.

Between the Sapiens, Denisovans, and Neanderthals, it is thought that only the Sapiens had covert estrus and continuous sexual availability. In other words, we're King Primate on this rock because we're perverts.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 04, 2016 01:44 AM (EzgxV)

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Gonna call it a night everyone. Thanks for the great chat tonight!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2016 01:45 AM (ntObR)

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I'm going to share a secret. We're all crazy. Everyone on the whole planet. Just in our own separate ways. Normal is just the baseline and common forms of crazy, and it only gets weirder from there.

So when you're finding a significant other, what you're really looking for is a form of crazy that harmonizes with your own instead of getting all discordant with it.

Unfortunately, when you're a huge geek like me, you pretty much gotta get used to the idea that you're probably headed to a future that involves a lot of cats because there's not enough girls that are into turbogeeks. Particularly ones that aren't Silicon Valley millionaires.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 01:40 AM (J+mig)

****

Yep, the Eddie Murphy gambit.

"Find someone just as fucked up as you are and settle down".

Posted by: Tim in GA at April 04, 2016 01:46 AM (YLidQ)

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Yep, we're perverts. What is that species we're supposed to be the closest related to? Is it bonobos? More than chimps? Anyway, these bonbos are horn dogs and doggette. The females just frig each other all the time. Two of 'em meet, and suddenly they're rubbing each other off.

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338 Yep, we're perverts. What is that species we're supposed to be the closest related to? Is it bonobos? More than chimps? Anyway, these bonbos are horn dogs and doggette. The females just frig each other all the time. Two of 'em meet, and suddenly they're rubbing each other off.

Which, BTW, leads me into my latest nightmare. The government of NYC mandates a climb to a $15/hr minimum wage, with benefits. McDonalds can telepresence someone there for $X/hour or project an AI simulation for %Y/hour.....

If they ever figure out how to do that, all of the entry-level jobs in this country will be done by remotely operated drones.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 01:58 AM (J+mig)

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Of course, more things going over the internet means more datacenters, so I think I'm safe, but a lot of the rest of society is boned.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 01:59 AM (J+mig)

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One fly in the ointment in the theories about human breast fixation is they've found some primitive cultures/tribes where breasts are NOT sexualized. Hell, I remember something. It was some tribe some damn place and they told the women that other men liked to play with the boobies and they were appalled.

Any man that would do that is just a big baby, some sicko, and they didn't want anything do with it.

So it's no universal, and that sort of puts a kink in the evolutionary psychology theories about this crap.

343Human breasts are unique. At least amongst primates, human females are the only ones who have permanently enlarged breasts. In other species, the breasts only swell up after birth during breastfeeding. Otherwise, they are flat. And I think that's true for all mammals, but I'm not certain.

And that is something of an evolutionary mystery.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 04, 2016 01:38 AM (DW+jj)

For most mammals, the butt is at eye level, even for great apes such as the mountain gorilla.

In upright humans, the breasts were close to eye level, and women with soft round boobs that mimicked soft round booty were the ones sexually selected for.

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342 One fly in the ointment in the theories about human breast fixation is they've found some primitive cultures/tribes where breasts are NOT sexualized.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 04, 2016 01:59 AM (DW+jj)

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Butt at eye level still does it for me. When a babe gets in "The Position", ass up in the air, back arched just right, and everything wide open.......If you put me in a damn MRI machine and watched my little brain when I saw that, you'd see a cascade of neurons firing and going into near seizure levels of activity.

That has to be hard wired, and goes way back in time. I mean way back.

347In upright humans, the breasts were close to eye level, and women with soft round boobs that mimicked soft round booty were the ones sexually selected for.

Posted by: The Evolutionary Hat at April 04, 2016 02:01 AM (vBeA5)

Not buying it. Bare breasts could never be confused for an ass, at all. Not in any way, shape, or form - literally. Now, if someone is imagining that push-up bras have been around for a hundred thousand years and that they played a very important evolutionary role, then ...

Probably just because all of their breasts were nasty. I'm betting you'll never see a picture of someone from one of those cultures and say, "Hey! Great tits!" Mor ethan likely you'll be thinking ... "Put on a shirt, please."

350Not buying it. Bare breasts could never be confused for an ass, at all. Not in any way, shape, or form - literally. Now, if someone is imagining that push-up bras have been around for a hundred thousand years and that they played a very important evolutionary role, then ...

which is why the National Geographic was never kept behind the counter in a brown paper wrapper.

Posted by: redc1c4 at April 04, 2016 02:12 AM (Pj+xp)

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Probably just because all of their breasts were nasty. I'm betting you'll never see a picture of someone from one of those cultures and say, "Hey! Great tits!" Mor ethan likely you'll be thinking ... "Put on a shirt, please."
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 04, 2016 02:10 AM (zc3Db)

****

Kinda like the infield at a NASCAR event. *Shudders*

Posted by: Tim in GA at April 04, 2016 02:14 AM (YLidQ)

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There was a Benny Hill worth incident told as actually true that happened at a wedding. It had been a loo-loo of a night before and some of the wedding party were still three sheets in the wind the next day at the actual church ceremony.

Well, one drunk joker was sitting the pews behind a women in the row in front. When they stood, he noticed her dress had gotten caught in the crack of her ass. It bothered him. They sat down and then later stood back up and there that little wedgie was still there.

So, the drunk just reaches up there and pulls it out for her. She turns around and slaps the fire out of him. He says, "Shorrry, Ma'am, I didn't know that's the way you wanted it", and just crams it back up the crack of her ass for her.

355344 342 One fly in the ointment in the theories about human breast fixation is they've found some primitive cultures/tribes where breasts are NOT sexualized.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 04, 2016 01:59 AM (DW+jj)

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And also to put in your pipe and smoke it, cunnilingus is associated with high culture as well. The better the oral skills at the lady parts, the higher the culture. Barbarians don't like to eat pussy.

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346 Butt at eye level still does it for me. When a babe gets in "The Position", ass up in the air, back arched just right, and everything wide open.......If you put me in a damn MRI machine and watched my little brain when I saw that, you'd see a cascade of neurons firing and going into near seizure levels of activity.

That has to be hard wired, and goes way back in time. I mean way back.

There are effectively two major porn poses -- "stop talking and just screw", as publius describes, and "eat me or something" -- which presents the pudenda in very accessible form. They both seem to elicit built-in functions in a majority of males.

363356 And also to put in your pipe and smoke it, cunnilingus is associated with high culture as well. The better the oral skills at the lady parts, the higher the culture. Barbarians don't like to eat pussy.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius)

Two words: Running water.

Barbarians don't have it. And without it, the nether regions, front and back, of either gender, remain majorly stinky basically all the time.

It's not that barbarian haven't thought of eating pussy, it's that they probably can't tolerate the smell.

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I posted this on the afternoon thread, but it more properly belongs on the ONT.

About a month ago I sent a bouquet of flowers to an internet porn model that I like. It was late at night and there's a pretty good chance that alcohol was involved. Anyway, she had a website with a wishlist, and I clicked on it and it went to Amazon. So I went ahead and did it.

A few days later I looked at her Twitter feed and saw that she thanked me, and said that the gift didn't include my e-mail address, or she would have thanked me in person. I was tempted to e-mail her and say, "Hi! It's me!" but decided to just leave it. I was sober by then.

I'm not a member or customer of hers. I've seen her around for a while. She doesn't know me from Adam. I sent her the flowers completely out of the blue. And I'm glad I did it.

So send flowers to your favorite porn star. It doesn't cost much, it feels good to do it, and those lovely ladies deserve a token of appreciation for their efforts.

Posted by: rickl at April 04, 2016 02:49 AM (sdi6R)

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It's not that barbarian haven't thought of eating pussy, it's that they probably can't tolerate the smell.

The mistake has been made. Now you need to get past it if you're interested in continuing the relationship. If she's not talking to you, snail mail her. Nobody does that any more. It should impress her. Tell her straight out what you told us.

That puts the ball back in her court. If she doesn't want anything more to do with you, that's HER loss, not yours.

And BTW, I did two years with a thousand-watter back in the '60's. What blast.

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Do yourselves a favor and supress any urge to look up what Hat was talking about. I've had the misfortune to run into an enthusiast of that abominable filth in meatspace, and the encounter was enough to make me decide that 40K's Inquisition was perfectly reasonable. If I'd had a big red button marked EXTERMINATUS, I'd have pushed it right then.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 03:28 AM (J+mig)

372Do yourselves a favor and supress any urge to look up what Hat was talking about. I've had the misfortune to run into an enthusiast of that abominable filth in meatspace, and the encounter was enough to make me decide that 40K's Inquisition was perfectly reasonable. If I'd had a big red button marked EXTERMINATUS, I'd have pushed it right then.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 03:28 AM (J+mig)

375Do yourselves a favor and supress any urge to look up what Hat was talking about. I've had the misfortune to run into an enthusiast of that abominable filth in meatspace, and the encounter was enough to make me decide that 40K's Inquisition was perfectly reasonable. If I'd had a big red button marked EXTERMINATUS, I'd have pushed it right then.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 03:28 AM (J+mig)

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Good Morning all. This is way too early to be up. The smell of Coffee woke me up. Funny how that works.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Good to the last drop. at April 04, 2016 04:26 AM (WVsWD)

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Would one of you gentleman morons please take my garbage out for me? I think that's the worst part of being suddenly single. The division of labor is no more. It's all you. Taking out the garbage is NOT a duty of the distaff side.

Maybe I can train the dog.

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2016 04:31 AM (1Rllm)

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'Morning, Tim. It is, indeed, too early to be up. It was too early to be up when I came wide awake at midnight.

Coffee's hot.

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2016 04:32 AM (1Rllm)

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He who controls the language controls the narrative.
Lots of good stuff Maet.
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2016 04:32 AM (1J6E6)

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So my geek son got new speakers for my computer. YouTube never sounded so good. How do they get so much sound out of a six-inch cube? Yes, there's a sub-woofer (whatever that is) but still. Bose would be green with envy.

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2016 04:41 AM (1Rllm)

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Good Morning Creeper. My Wife was brewing regular Coffee. I love the smell of it. The taste is what gets me. I gotta have Instant.

I know. I'm a Neanderthal.

On another subject. Mice. The kind your Computer uses. Never buy one from Big Lots. I have two from there. Neither operates correctly.

Waste of money.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Good to the last drop. at April 04, 2016 04:48 AM (WVsWD)

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Thanks for the tip on mice. Haven't found a decent mouse in six years. I'll keep limping along with this Xornet until it dies. Better the evil you know...

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2016 04:51 AM (1Rllm)

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I use a Lap Top. Haven't nor will I ever master the Touch Pad. I catch endless teasing for it from alleged members of my Family.

:/

Did you listen to that link of Hat's, the Girl singing Sway. What a great Voice.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Good to the last drop. at April 04, 2016 04:55 AM (WVsWD)

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385
Thanks for the tip on mice. Haven't found a decent mouse in six years.
I'll keep limping along with this Xornet until it dies. Better the evil
you know...

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2016 04:51 AM (1Rllm)

I use a Razer Taipan. Gaming mouse, which means more expensive than it has a right to be, but with a higher level of precision than most mice. I regretted spending that much until I got used to using it. It's a really good mouse, and it's handled some accidental rough handling in my laptop bag (which has a tendency to bang on doors as I go to work) pretty well.

Oh, and don't go Cordless. Who the heck wants to have another thing that eats batteries when you don't have to? It's just extra complication and more things that can go wrong.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 04, 2016 04:59 AM (J+mig)

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Did you listen to that link of Hat's, the Girl singing Sway. What a great Voice.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Good to the last drop. at April 04, 2016 04:55 AM (WVsWD)

I did not. Still recovering from the "whips and chains" link. I'll check it out.

Posted by: creeper at April 04, 2016 05:01 AM (1Rllm)

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"I did not. Still recovering from the "whips and chains" link. I'll check it out."

LoL.

I passed on that one. Probably as bad as some of the stuff that Robert used to post long ago.

I'm too old for some of that stuff.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. The Old Man is a Prude. at April 04, 2016 05:03 AM (WVsWD)

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So frustrating. I decided last night to gather up all of my stuff for the GBA and take it to a place that would buy it. The problem is most of the cartridges are in a big ziploc bag that I cannot find after considerable searching. I used to put the bag in my luggage for trips but moved on to more modern toys quite a while ago. Yet the bag is in none of the places it should be. That represents somewhere between $200 and $300 as some of the games are considered rarities and command a high price.

Part of my mind that finds the worst possible scenario in any situation suggests it was inadvertently in a box of Goodwill donations. If I was going to be that charitable I would have given them the packaging too.

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Google and keyword searching killed the subject heading. Librarians and some academics are the last users of subject headings. That anyone at LC wasted time and money to make these changes is an entirely worthwhile question.

Posted by: Wendy at April 04, 2016 10:59 AM (bpemY)

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Ima gonna hafta know when that Scarlet Sexbot is hitting the market. Must start saving now..... **I'll take the "Nicole Kidman at 25" model, please, with extra enhancements up front. Oh, and the "social graces" and "home cooking" modules as well.

Balkanization helps the left as their ideology is predicated on racial, ethnic, socio-economic and cultural tensions giving rise to the need for trasnfortion and change to create more "socially just" society.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 04, 2016 11:35 AM (06lNq)

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I'm pretty familiar with service rifles. What European country uses anything based on the M16? I can't think of any.

Norway and some others are starting to use the H&K 416 which looks like an AR but is really a G36 inside. I guess you could say it's based on the AR-18.